NY’s $17 billion ‘Gateway’ tunnel
project already years behind schedule,
audit reveals
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino, 1/14/2024 11:50:42 AM
The Gateway project to build two new badly needed tunnels for trains under the Hudson River is already running two years behind schedule — even though it just broke ground, a federal audit shows. Officials at the Gateway Development Commission have publicly stated that by 2038 they will have finished digging and constructing the new tunnels and then rehabilitate the two existing trans-Hudson tubes, which were badly damaged by Superstorm Sandy. However, the audit performed for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Transit Administration shows the work will likely take until 2040.
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them of consequences 15 replies
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them of consequences 15 replies
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Arctic blast plunges more than three-quarters
of US into deep freeze, leaving at least
4 dead 19 replies
of US into deep freeze, leaving at least
4 dead 19 replies
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The betting line has just been released. The Under/Over year for completion of both the Kali bullet train and the NY tunnels is 2062. I'm taking Over.